{"id":40772,"date":"2026-04-04T03:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/injured-sonay-kartal-out-of-great-britains-billie-jean-king-cup-qualifier-against-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:53:18","slug":"injured-sonay-kartal-out-of-great-britains-billie-jean-king-cup-qualifier-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/injured-sonay-kartal-out-of-great-britains-billie-jean-king-cup-qualifier-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Sonay Kartal out of Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week because of injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The absence of the British number two means the team will be without their four highest-ranked players, after Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c14mdznd3gko\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">not included in the initial squad<\/a> as they focus on their clay-court seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It leaves world number 181 Harriet Dart as the team&#8217;s highest-ranked singles player for the tie, which takes place on 10-11 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, 24, said she had not yet recovered from the lower back issue which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c80jn4p84ngo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">forced her retirement<\/a> from a fourth-round Indian Wells match against world number three Elena Rybakina last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After having some scans it is clear that I&#8217;m going to need a little more time to let it heal,&#8221; Kartal said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cn891nj3l9ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week because of injury. The absence of the British number two means the team will be without their four highest-ranked players, after Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones were not included in the initial squad as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40774,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40772\/revisions\/40774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}